Embryo selection through artificial intelligence versus embryologists: a systematic review.

Study Question: What is the present performance of artificial intelligence (AI) decision support during embryo selection compared to the standard embryo selection by embryologists?

Summary Answer: AI consistently outperformed the clinical teams in all the studies focused on embryo morphology and clinical outcome prediction during embryo selection assessment.

What Is Known Already: The ART success rate is ∼30%, with a worrying trend of increasing female age correlating with considerably worse results. As such, there have been ongoing efforts to address this low success rate through the development of new technologies.

Clarifying the unmet clinical need during medical device innovation in women's health - A narrative review.

Medical technologies are pervasive across women's health, spanning across obstetric and gynecological care. FemTech, the sector responsible for developing these technologies, is growing at 15.6% per annum.

Virtual reality and its use in post-operative pain following laparoscopy: a feasibility study.

Pain following laparoscopic surgery remains a neglected healthcare issue. Virtual reality-mediated therapy's (VRT) analgesic potential could address this. However, its effect in this setting remains unexplored.

The Effectiveness of Virtual Reality in Managing Acute Pain and Anxiety for Medical Inpatients: Systematic Review.

Background: Virtual reality is increasingly being utilized by clinicians to facilitate analgesia and anxiolysis within an inpatient setting. There is however, a lack of a clinically relevant review to guide its use for this purpose.

Objective: To systematically review the current evidence for the efficacy of virtual reality as an analgesic in the management of acute pain and anxiolysis in an inpatient setting.

Maternal and neonatal outcomes associated with COVID-19 infection: A systematic review.

Background: COVID-19 has created an extraordinary global health crisis. However, with limited understanding of the effects of COVID-19 during pregnancy, clinicians and patients are forced to make uninformed decisions.

Objectives: To systematically evaluate the literature and report the maternal and neonatal outcomes associated with COVID-19.

A randomised controlled trial to assess the feasibility of utilising virtual reality to facilitate analgesia during external cephalic version.

External cephalic version (ECV) is associated with a moderate degree of pain. Virtual reality (VR) is a technology that has shown promise in offering procedural analgesia. We undertook a clinical pilot to assess the viability of VR to reduce pain during ECV.

Defining the clinician's role in early health technology assessment during medical device innovation - a systematic review.

Background: Early Health Technology Assessment (EHTA) is an evolving field in health policy which aims to provide decision support and mitigate risk during early medical device innovation. The clinician is a key stakeholder in this process and their role has traditionally been confined to assessing device efficacy and safety alone. There is however, no data exploring their role in this process and how they can contribute towards it.

A systematic review on the utility of non-invasive electrophysiological assessment in evaluating for intra uterine growth restriction.

Background: Non-invasive electrophysiological assessment (NIEA) is an evolving area in fetal surveillance and is attracting increasing research interest. There is however, limited data outlining its utility in evaluating intra uterine growth restriction (IUGR). The objective of this study was to carry out a systematic review to outline the utility of NIEA parameters in evaluating IUGR.